Darricau estate
An ideal location
Situated on the shores of Lake Aureilhan, the Darricau estate extends over 50 hectares of forest and meadow.
9 km from the ocean, 3 km from Mimizan with its hypermarket and shops, Darricau is 1h20 from Bordeaux, the same from Biarritz or Hossegor, 1h from the Dune du Pilat and 35 minutes from Biscarosse.
An exceptional forest park
In addition to dozens of species of trees, some of which are several hundred years old, you’ll come across Bordeaux boletus and porcini mushrooms, roe deer, foxes, badgers, weasels, hedgehogs, squirrels, wild boar, hares, rabbits, pheasants, owls, cuckoos, finches, chickadees, sparrows, etc., as the seasons change.
An amazing story
In love with the area, the Duke of Westminster offered to lease Darricau to Roger Sargos, who declined. The Duke then decided to build Woolsack. Thereafter, the two men regularly visited each other in their respective homes.
When he came to Mimizan to stay with his friend the Duke of Westminster, Winston Churchill liked to set up his amateur painter’s easel in front of the dovecote or the cork oaks at Darricau, or simply to take a stroll.
Winston Churchill, oil on canvas, 1930
“En 1823, Pierre Sargos l’aîné (1795-1862), arrière-grand-père de Roger Sargos, achète à la veuve du général Augustin Darricau, le domaine Darricau qui comprenait notamment l’ancien manoir Darricau, près duquel Pierre Sargos fait construire le château actuel et ses dépendances dont l’atelier des résines.
Since then, the family of silviculturists has handed down the property and the large plots of maritime pine that once covered most of the village of Aureilhan.
Source : Wikipedia
